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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd.aoshq at gee mail.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com | In A Hole? Keep Digging! (“How Can I Get My Boyfriend to Stop Digging His Tunnel?” )A woman posted on Reddit that her boyfriend spends all his spare time digging a tunnel on his property, and that if separated too long from his digging, he gets anxious to get back to his tunnel. So, I know this is a weird question, but my boyfriend likes to spend a lot of his free time digging a tunnel on some property that he inherited. I haven't seen the full extent of it, but last I saw it was remarkably deep under the surface. At the front, which is the only part that I've seen, he's got cement beams, electric lights, even chairs and a small table. Aside from safety concerns, there's also the fact that he doesn't really have a social life, because of this thing. I'm pretty much the only person he still talks to outside of his job, and he doesn't go out and do anything anymore. It used to be that he'd occasionally head out and do some digging on the weekends, but now he spends almost all of his free time out there. He's always really happy when he comes back from digging, which is why I haven't seriously tried to stop him before, but I was talking to a friend about him, and she told me he might be going crazy.The Reddit post was put on Twitter and went viral, with some hilarious responses.
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It's not just boys. I used to do serious hydrologic engineering as a sprout, and in the Pacific Northwest there are many, MANY opportunities to dig ditches/create dams/redirect water or as my mom put it, "create all the mud". You should try it, it's fun!
Posted by: Sabrina Chase at May 07, 2022 07:34 PM (Ueqns) 2
So, how big a tunnel?
I'll admit to being the meme- underground stuff always fascinates me. That one where a guy had like a 1000 sq foot home and then created a 5000 sq foot bunker with concrete under the house is like candy to me. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:34 PM (dNqv+) 3
Its part of male psyche to create and build. Just hard wired into us, like how women have to put extra pillows on the couch
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2022 07:36 PM (KZzsI) 4
Dude: "I'm digging a tunnel under my yard."
Me: "Where's it going?" Dude: "Pretty far. Wanna help?" Me: "Yes." Posted by: Slapweasel at May 07, 2022 07:40 PM (Ckg4U) 5
Someone needs to acquaint this lady with the concept of "man cave".
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2022 07:40 PM (cTCuP) 6
Way back when, I dammed up a creek up in the hills of CA. I did a good enough job to be able to swim in the pool that built up behind the dam.
The next year, when we went back, no dam. It appeared someone, the nerve! had busted it up. Years later, it dawned on me I'd probably dammed a much needed water source for a rancher further downstream, hence the destruction. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 07:40 PM (5pTK/) 7
Years later, it dawned on me I'd probably dammed a much needed water source for a rancher further downstream, hence the destruction.
Eh, the water still goes downstream once it fills the pool. Probably just natural erosion Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2022 07:41 PM (KZzsI) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2022 07:41 PM (/U27+) 9
3 Its part of male psyche to create and build.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2022 07:36 PM (KZzsI) And demolish and rebuild. Posted by: Ordinary American at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (H8QX8) 10
Why not give him a spoon?
Posted by: Milton Friedman at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (uywL/) 11
Eh, I get doing something and it's hard to stop.
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (2JoB8) Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (/U27+) 13
9 3 Its part of male psyche to create and build.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2022 07:36 PM (KZzsI) And demolish and rebuild. Posted by: Ordinary American at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (H8QX Fire and explosives are best. Although on a bunker, say- expand the bunker. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:43 PM (dNqv+) 14
I made a dam on our little creek and it made a nice little pond but then when it rained hard part of the driveway and yard would flood so I had to take it down.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 07:43 PM (vrz2I) 15
Has me wondering where this tunnel is going and it's purpose
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 07:43 PM (2JoB8) 16
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Boyfriend will still be 20 feet short of the woods. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (/U27+) Bet he does not have to dispose of the dirt in the yards so the camp guard (his girlfriend) does not notice. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:43 PM (dNqv+) 17
Tunneling beneath my yard would necessarily involve explosives. Not that that's a bad thing.
Posted by: Cosda at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (rAiEO) 18
She's just mad he's not busy digging HER tunnel.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (II3Gr) 19
Years later, it dawned on me I'd probably dammed a much needed water source for a rancher further downstream, hence the destruction.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 07:40 PM (5pTK/) --------- What don't you know about riparian rights? Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (uywL/) 20
I have a friend who built a 12' deep cofferdam to repair the dam at an old mill he owns. By himself, and he's no spring chicken. I am so impressed.
He's been trying to put in a hydroelectric generation setup at the mill, but has been stymied by all the insane government regulation involved so far. Posted by: West at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (QY+6a) 21
I had a pond built by my house ... that was neat. And now I'm putting in drain tiles with terraces ... so the water gets dammed up ... keeps topsoil from going down the Mississippi and causing red tides in the gulf.
But no tunnels, that would make me nervous. Unless it was like the Rambo Last Blood movie, preparing for the dawn raids. Posted by: illiniwek at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (Cus5s) 22
If your into tunnel building, just say its going to be a fallout shelter, which is all the rage now. You know if we laugh at the Russian's enough, Putin might get the last laugh.
Loved to dig little roads in the backyard when I was about 8 -10 years old. Had lots of plastic cars and trucks to run them on. (Still have a few) We had a dirt berm way back in the backyard under some trees. None of the girls showed any interest in what us boys were doing.... Posted by: Colin at May 07, 2022 07:45 PM (YVx1O) 23
17 Tunneling beneath my yard would necessarily involve explosives. Not that that's a bad thing.
Posted by: Cosda at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (rAiEO) --------- Call your local sapper's union for further information. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 07, 2022 07:45 PM (uywL/) 24
As kids we would expend all day damming up a creek then before leaving destroy it and watch the flood as it goes down stream
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (2JoB8) 25
Everything was fine until her Bitch Friend got involved.
Her: "He's happy." Friend: "He's crazy." *shoots friend* Her: "He's happy again." Posted by: Slapweasel at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (Ckg4U) 26
As far as the girlfriend and the tunnel digging goes:
Are we sure that this is not a metaphor for something? Posted by: West at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (QY+6a) 27
Tunneling beneath my yard would necessarily involve explosives. Not that that's a bad thing.
Posted by: Cosda at May 07, 2022 07:44 PM (rAiEO) ------------- I made splody devices as a youth. Maybe we should chat? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (5pTK/) Posted by: I am the walrus at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (Xrfse) 29
Oak Island isn't about treasure at all
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (wkC12) 30
I'm dam good at building dams. I'll put my dam experience up against yours any dam time.
Posted by: A Beaver at May 07, 2022 07:47 PM (u73oe) 31
The nly reason I did not dig up my parents back yard and tunnel straight down: impacted clay. The dirt was shiny when you tried to dig any hole with a shovel.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:47 PM (dNqv+) Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 07, 2022 07:48 PM (pxfp5) 33
Oak Island isn't about treasure at all
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 07, 2022 07:46 PM (wkC12) -------------- Heh. I can see it now: Guy talking with buddies: "Hey, I want to spend my life digging holes, using some cool equipment! Any ideas on how we can make this happen?" Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 07:48 PM (5pTK/) 34
Guys like engineering things out of stuff they find. Back in the 80s, a friend and I scored a few big Uhaul loads of 90mm artillery shell crates, wood, rope handles hinged top. We were in them for about .15 each counting truck rental, and my garage became the storage depot which really pissed off the wife. We had the what the hell are we going to do with them moment, and decided, what the hell, lets see if they will sell for $2 each. Gone in two days. I kept some for basement shelving and stuff.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 07:49 PM (lz5hY) Posted by: Lenny Skinner at May 07, 2022 07:49 PM (63Dwl) 36
And this explains the early thread the difference of boys and girls.
Every once and awhile some Trannie girl who thinks she is a guy gets all emotional and straight away think girl you will not make it as a guy. Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 07:49 PM (2JoB8) 37
It's Sgt. Pepper's only hole dig plan.
Posted by: klaftern at May 07, 2022 07:49 PM (taPSh) 38
The nly reason I did not dig up my parents back yard and tunnel straight down: impacted clay. The dirt was shiny when you tried to dig any hole with a shovel.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:47 PM (dNqv+) ---------- We must have shared the same backyard. Layer of adobe clay about two feet down, no matter where one dug. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 07:49 PM (5pTK/) 39
Boyfriend will still be 20 feet short of the woods.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2022 07:42 PM (/U27+) Cue Elmer Bernstein. Posted by: Ordinary American at May 07, 2022 07:50 PM (H8QX8) Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2022 07:50 PM (cTCuP) 41
Oak Island Dude: "I'm digging for stuff."
Other Oak Island Dude: "You didn't find anything." Oak Island Dude: "I was going to dig another hole. Wanna help?" Other Oak Island Dude: "Yes." Posted by: Slapweasel at May 07, 2022 07:51 PM (Ckg4U) 42
My brother and I dug a big hole in our backyard when I was little.
Posted by: RNC BrainTrust at May 07, 2022 07:51 PM (m1ts9) 43
Aside from safety concerns, there's also the fact that he doesn't really have a social life, because of this thing
Wait a minute...is the FNM officially saying plebes should no longer "shelter in place" and "stay home stay safe?" Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 07:52 PM (ESjRY) 44
Around here during the warm weather road construction, we have girls working on the project. They have signs that say stop or slow.
Posted by: Colin at May 07, 2022 07:52 PM (YVx1O) 45
Boys be craxxy
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 07, 2022 07:53 PM (kf6Ak) 46
This is one either MisHum or WD put on an ONT. Not the one I am looking for that I saw an ad (because it was up for sale) like 20 years ago.
https://tinyurl.com/2y2prack Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:53 PM (dNqv+) 47
Is this a stealth hobby thread? I took crap for defending the integrity of threads. A: this guy has one friend, and even that person can't keep the first rule of hole digging.
2' is this about that guy and the guard that broke out of jail? Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 07:53 PM (Rz7nO) 48
Oak Island.
Posted by: klaftern at May 07, 2022 07:54 PM (taPSh) 49
My neighbor's father has one of those midget Kubota backhoes just for amusement.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 07:54 PM (lz5hY) 50
Oak Island should be under water at this point.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 07, 2022 07:54 PM (sAmhv) 51
And the endlessly fascinating Acme Instant Hole.
Posted by: klaftern at May 07, 2022 07:55 PM (taPSh) 52
Boys be craxxy
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 07, 2022 07:53 PM (kf6Ak) ----------------- Yet, you ladies seem to be drawn to us. So, who's crazy, again? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 07:55 PM (5pTK/) 53
One of the first F to M trannies wrote a book about what it was like. She said that she thought she knew what the male sex drive was like since she's always been hornier then most women she knew.
And...then the testosterone hit. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 07:56 PM (ESjRY) 54
I just came across a company that will make you a survival bunker. 1400 to 2400 sq feet.
Have not found the other house. It was made by a guy whose day job was a concrete contractor. I thought PNW? Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:56 PM (dNqv+) Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 07, 2022 07:56 PM (eGTCV) 56
Not much to do with digging, except that I now have to start digging up replacements for what got left in DE.
(Willowed) Okay, gang. Not sure whether to thank you or cuss you out, but all this spinning talk has gotten me to dig out what of my spinning stuff made it through the move to Texas. That would be five of my home-made drop spindles, a wrist distaff, and maybe a pound (maybe less) of emerald-green merino top. I used to have a lot more, including a nice Traveller wheel, but this was all that would fit in the nooks of the 5x8 U-Haul we used to move. Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at May 07, 2022 07:56 PM (y0zVi) 57
Do male dogs dig more than female dogs?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at May 07, 2022 07:57 PM (eGTCV) 58
Dirt for the taking is awesome. I mean really more land? Who doesn't love that?
Posted by: The British Empire at May 07, 2022 07:57 PM (ESjRY) 59
But seriously, where was this pile of free dirt?
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2022 07:57 PM (r26XY) 60
53 One of the first F to M trannies wrote a book about what it was like. She said that she thought she knew what the male sex drive was like since she's always been hornier then most women she knew.
And...then the testosterone hit. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 07:56 PM (ESjRY) Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 07:57 PM (dNqv+) 61
"even chairs and a small table."
Yes, because the furniture present in this undertaking is important enough to mention. Seriously, some people.... Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at May 07, 2022 07:58 PM (c3Jw6) 62
Bill Kristol knows all about digging holes.
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 07:59 PM (Rz7nO) 63
@26 West-I believe it is a metaphor for something;
guys spend 9 months trying to get out and the rest of our lives trying to get back in. Posted by: JROD at May 07, 2022 07:59 PM (0jZnq) 64
Is it possible this is about Cody from Cody's Lab channel on Youtube?
Posted by: The Guy What Changes The Light Bulbs at May 07, 2022 07:59 PM (YdDaK) 65
"I haven't seen the full extent of it, but last I saw it was remarkably deep under the surface."
----------------------- Kedakai!! Now sit down there and wait for a spiritual/supernatural experience. Trust me, it will make a great story! Posted by: Haruki Murakami at May 07, 2022 07:59 PM (lNHqD) 66
>>Guys like engineering things out of stuff they find
The chapel at my college was on a hill. Someone in my frat had the idea to build a luge course on the slope behind the chapel which had some natural twists and turns through the woods. We spent weeks crafting a beautiful course complete with banked turns. We dragged garbage cans full of water to turn the whole thing into a solid block of ice and it was truly a thing of beauty and fast as hell. Everyday we would steal trays from the cafeteria to use as sleds and we used ski wax to make the slippery as could be. It was one of the highlights of our academic career. Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (ZLI7S) 67
This reminds me a little bit of Gary Gygax's wife.
She noticed that he was disappearing for long periods of time and seemed sketchy about it. So she followed him one day and burst into the house he was in to find him...role playing D&D. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (ESjRY) 68
I used to dig trenches and bunkers for my battalion of army men and then blow them up with M80s and other vile weapons of mass destruction.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (LkM8p) 69
I remember when I was young there was a lot of construction in our neighborhood, and usually the contractors would start by dumping a big load of dirt for leveling, landscaping, etc. We were all over those piles on evenings and weekends when the crews were gone.
of course we didn't always dig, another fun thing was to build ramps you could jump your bike off of and knock your teeth out when you landed. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (q3gwH) 70
You know you're in trouble when your 12 year old boy and his friends are walking around the yard, kicking around dirt that appears to be coming from their pant legs. If the kid has McQueen and Bronson posters in his bedroom, after giving thanks, check your crawlspace.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (lz5hY) Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (vrz2I) 72
57 miniature schnauzers love to dig, males and females. You point at the ground and they will dig to China.
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 08:01 PM (Rz7nO) Posted by: Updated for 2022 at May 07, 2022 08:02 PM (ESjRY) 74
https://tinyurl.com/2p8baxmp
20 Tweets from Bad Blue Some real good stuff, might not have brought it up yet Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 08:02 PM (2JoB8) 75
Men like mowing the yard so that it looks nice.
Posted by: Hadrian NOTE TO HORDE: Hadrian requires alcohol, STAT! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2022 08:02 PM (JsG7X) 76
Speaking of tunnels, the craziest thing, I have ever done, was spelunking in a off the books cave in the middle of Appalachia with primitive lights.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:03 PM (hOUT3) 77
House of Wax s coming on Svengoolie.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 08:03 PM (vrz2I) 78
60 53 One of the first F to M trannies wrote a book about what it was like. She said that she thought she knew what the male sex drive was like since she's always been hornier then most women she knew.
And...then the testosterone hit. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 07:56 PM (ESjRY) I can't remember what comedian it was, might have on the old Dr. Katz show. "Women say 'We got sex drives too, you're not the only ones.' Oh yeah, you got drives. It's like the difference between shooting a bullet and just tossing it at someone." Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:03 PM (q3gwH) 79
A civil engineer friend has pointed out that dirt is a funny thing. If you have it, you have to pay to get rid of it. If you need it, you have to buy it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 07, 2022 08:04 PM (aiTDG) 80
Everyday we would steal trays from the cafeteria to use as sleds and we used ski wax to make the slippery as could be.
Posted by: JackStraw And now, for some unexplainable reason, Jack has a bad back... Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2022 08:05 PM (JsG7X) 81
Aye, Khazad-dûm wasn't built in a day!
Posted by: Durin at May 07, 2022 08:06 PM (YdDaK) 82
68 try a legit one to Army standards. A legit pain in the ass. We even had to counter the dirt so hand grenades would roll into pits and we would be golden.
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 08:06 PM (Rz7nO) 83
One of our dogs loved to dig tunnels so much that we considered sending him to engineering school.
We still have one who digs, but not like that. Posted by: KT at May 07, 2022 08:07 PM (rrtZS) 84
Our female shepherd-mix would dig.
She'd bury some of her treats (or baby bunnies, or partly-chewed squirrels or...) and unearth later to eat, dirt and all. Ewww. Good for us that she dug up and killed the mole in our yard, too. RIP, Baby. You were a good girl! Posted by: JQ at May 07, 2022 08:07 PM (dpnJh) 85
Every time I look at property from a Diogenes Compound perspective, the first thought is water, the second is can I go underground?
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2022 08:07 PM (anj39) 86
Music for the thread: https://youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0
Posted by: Diggy Diggy Hole at May 07, 2022 08:08 PM (ESjRY) 87
My neighbor's father has one of those midget Kubota backhoes just for amusement.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, That's what they all say... Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:08 PM (hOUT3) Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2022 08:08 PM (cTCuP) 89
>>And now, for some unexplainable reason, Jack has a bad back...
In the grand scheme of things that was one of the least stupid things I've done to myself. Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2022 08:08 PM (ZLI7S) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2022 08:10 PM (U2p+3) 91
I do so want a backhoe attachment for my tractor.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 08:10 PM (vrz2I) 92
Some digging can be very practical, like putting in a storm shelter. Some of the ones around here, especially over in OK get to be pretty elaborate. Guy down the road from my BIL had a digging party, put in steps, and lowered an old Serro Scotty camper he got for next to nothing. A little ventilation, a little electric and water and besides a family storm shelter he had poker game and beer drinking central.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:11 PM (lz5hY) 93
On school ground when I was a kid a storm drain went about 100 yards from end of grounds to road and baseball sideline, we use to craw up who thing and often, think that's why small spaces don't bother me one bit. Saw when grown up it was blocked off by bars.
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 08:11 PM (2JoB8) 94
I do so want a backhoe attachment for my tractor.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 08:10 PM (vrz2I) -------- I thought for sure that was a weasel comment. Obviously, I thought wrong. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 08:11 PM (5pTK/) 95
86 Music for the thread: https://youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0
Posted by: Diggy Diggy Hole at May 07, 2022 08:08 PM (ESjRY) LOL! I skip a lot of links posted here. I'm glad I didn't skip this one. Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2022 08:13 PM (cTCuP) 96
In the grand scheme of things that was one of the least stupid things I've done to myself. Posted by: JackStraw heh, heh, heh. That's what we all say! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2022 08:13 PM (JsG7X) 97
used to dig trenches and bunkers for my battalion of army men and then blow them up with M80s and other vile weapons of mass destruction.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 07, 2022 08:00 PM (LkM8p) I'm watching the WWII in color - the sheer brutality of US forces comes across, a lot of the British are shocked at the brutality we unleased on the Nazis - we were feared, Americans are crazy war folks - I know, I served with people that would kill the enemy just for their shoes. It is something that a lot of Russian forces don't understand. Americans, if unleased, will kill you for trophies. Posted by: Boswell at May 07, 2022 08:13 PM (5iUNf) 98
OMG! Channel surfing and Pure Country is on CMT! I'll be enjoying a young and sexy George Strait for the next 2 hours. Later dudes...
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 08:14 PM (nxdel) 99
Fellow owned a roofing company and hit it big.
First he bought some land in the country, then he built a house - his company kept growing and then he bought a ... D-6 and started digging holes. True story. Posted by: Braenyard at May 07, 2022 08:14 PM (/i5sE) 100
House of Wax, where Igor is played by Charles Bronson. And it's so early in his career that he's still called Charles Buchinsky.
Producers told him he wasn't to go very far with a name ending in "ski". Similar thing happened to Jack Pahluniak, AKA Jack Palance. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:14 PM (q3gwH) 101
When I was a kid in South Louisiana my buddy and I started to dig a tunnel in the corner of my backyard.
South Louisiana. Didn't end like we imagined. Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 07, 2022 08:16 PM (jUOQH) 102
The Star Trek, Strange New Worlds review at the top of the sidebar is pretty funny.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 08:16 PM (rKWLQ) Posted by: Braenyard at May 07, 2022 08:16 PM (/i5sE) 104
My buddy's boys had a kids backhoe for the sandbox but they couldn't keep the beer drinking guys off the thing.
Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 08:17 PM (+ya+t) 105
"House of Wax, where Igor is played by Charles Bronson"
There is this weird 3d effect even though I'm watching the 2d version. You can see how they framed scenes to get maximum 3d. Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 08:17 PM (vrz2I) 106
They were opening a heat equipment operating playground in the Houston area but the grand opening got delayed. I forgot for what reason.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 07, 2022 08:17 PM (jUOQH) 107
South Louisiana. Didn't end like we imagined.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 07, 2022 08:16 PM (jUOQH) ------------ I'm guessing you found at there's a reason burial plots are above ground in that area of the US? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 08:17 PM (5pTK/) 108
And to share what the algorithm gave me after going back to the get the url for diggy diggy hole...Its a bagpipe version of Enter Sandman; https://youtu.be/HXm8JdC4k4c
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:18 PM (ESjRY) 109
South Louisiana. Didn't end like we imagined.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at May 07, 2022 08:16 PM (jUOQH) Got a mite damp, I am guessing. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 08:18 PM (dNqv+) 110
"even chairs and a small table." It's not a man cave until you get a tv. Posted by: fd ADAM-12 had an episode about that. A kid built a cave and moved in with TV and furniture. Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2022 08:19 PM (63Dwl) 111
If he digs too deep he'll get to lava. Just make sure to have a bucket of water on hand to turn it into obsidian.
Oh, and the boyfriend would be super happy if you could just make him 10^9 torches, as a gift. Actually, make that 10^90 torches, that should do it, ... you know, maybe just to be safe go ahead and make 10^9000 torches. Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 08:19 PM (0rQxu) 112
When WW1 came to an abrupt end, it was a surprise to a lot of people, but most of all the German Army still entrenched in France. When the Allies took over their positions, they were shocked at the work of pioneer troops in some sectors. Reinforced concrete, proper drainage with pumps, narrow gauge railway even navigating some of the trench line. Dig we must.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:19 PM (lz5hY) 113
1978, 6th grade, DC got 3' of snow. After all the neighbors shoveled their driveways, me and a handful of the boys on my street dug tunnels through the resulting banks. It was *glorious*.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 07, 2022 08:19 PM (KAi1n) 114
Wife doesn't understand why the guys on "Roadkill" do burnouts all the time.
Because burnouts are freaking awesome! Wth?!?!?! Posted by: weirdflunky at May 07, 2022 08:19 PM (cknjq) 115
103 that is not an Italian name.
Posted by: Dean Martin at May 07, 2022 08:20 PM (Rz7nO) 116
Oh, and the boyfriend would be super happy if you could just make him 10^9 torches, as a gift Two to the sixth please. Duh. Posted by: Some Steve at May 07, 2022 08:21 PM (ESjRY) Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2022 08:21 PM (U2p+3) 118
As a boy growing up in the sticks of NC, I have both participated in digging a cave, complete with periscope system to see outside, as well as constantly damming up the creek next to the house for unknown reasons.
Evidently civil engineering was in my blood. Posted by: ballistic at May 07, 2022 08:22 PM (oXNqT) 119
Leftover spaghetti calls. It's been real. Keep yer hand on it, Horde.
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2022 08:22 PM (cTCuP) 120
Wife doesn't understand why the guys on "Roadkill" do burnouts all the time.
Because burnouts are freaking awesome! Wth?!?!?! Posted by: weirdflunky at May 07, 2022 08:19 PM (cknjq) *** Last day of school for seniors at my high school...back when cars were a big deal, was Senior Burnout Day. We'd pour a quart of oil on the road and smoke the hell out of every burn out. All in front of the school of course. Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2022 08:23 PM (anj39) Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 08:23 PM (vrz2I) 122
ZeroHedge has a story that Hunter Biden's password on his laptop was "AnalF**k69"
Well, I'm happy the adults are back in charge how about you guys? Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:24 PM (ESjRY) 123
And about creeks, there is (was?) a good one in Annandale behind Walton Lane and Parliament Village. As kids, my bro and our 2 friends would regularly ask "wanna go to the creek?" We'd damn it up, channel currents, catch crayfish, so much fun.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 07, 2022 08:24 PM (KAi1n) 124
113 Heh. Built a snow fort alongside the house. Nice one, even roofed it in after seeing some stuff about the eskimos and igloos. Our house had a slippery slate roof and piss poor insulation. The avalanche occurred and we had to dig our way out.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:24 PM (lz5hY) 125
ZeroHedge has a story that Hunter Biden's password on his laptop was "AnalF**k69"
Well, I'm happy the adults are back in charge how about you guys? Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:24 PM (ESjRY) ---------------- Skeevy pervert is the best thing I can say about Hunter. But, obviously, Hunter didn't fall far from the tree what dropped him. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at May 07, 2022 08:25 PM (5pTK/) 126
Well, I'm happy the adults are back in charge how about you guys? Posted by: 18-1 Uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters, that's a strong password! (I didn't say good!) Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 07, 2022 08:25 PM (JsG7X) Posted by: DB at May 07, 2022 08:25 PM (geLO8) 128
113, I remember that one distinctly. It was called the Blizzard of '79. You might be a year off or I might be. But few who lived it will forget it. We were visiting friends. We missed two weeks if school.
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 08:25 PM (Rz7nO) 129
119 Leftover spaghetti calls. It's been real. Keep yer hand on it, Horde.
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2022 08:22 PM (cTCuP) *shifty eyes* Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 08:26 PM (dNqv+) 130
You dig it. I'll tear it out.
Posted by: Post10 at May 07, 2022 08:26 PM (JrOF+) Posted by: Fragile Frankie at May 07, 2022 08:26 PM (tEB0M) 132
I used to make snow caves in the winter. If it blew up the side of the house you could make a whole fort. I don't ever remember ever being cold. Now I can't stand SE GA cold, like 40 degrees cold. But as a kid, I would spend all day out in below freezing temps making stuff and sliding down parking lot snow piles. Cold must have gotten colder.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 08:27 PM (0rQxu) 133
Just don't dig past waist deep.
Posted by: OSHA Karen at May 07, 2022 08:27 PM (JrOF+) Posted by: Captain Haiku at May 07, 2022 08:27 PM (gOdCV) 135
>> used to dig trenches and bunkers for my battalion of army men and then blow them up with M80s and other vile weapons of mass destruction.
Posted by: Dr. Bone if you squirt some model airplane glue on a little army man and light it, you can pretend he got by a flamethrower Posted by: DB at May 07, 2022 08:27 PM (geLO8) Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 08:27 PM (Rz7nO) 137
101
I imagine your hole filling in with muddy water. Was it like that? Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 07, 2022 08:28 PM (roH4R) 138
My neighbor's father has one of those midget Kubota backhoes just for amusement.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:28 PM (hOUT3) 139
I have a hard time believing there are any sisters stupid enough to have bb gun fights like my brother and I did. Girls just aren't that stupid. I hope.
Posted by: weirdflunky at May 07, 2022 08:29 PM (cknjq) 140
You start to dig down. You keep digging down. At some point, you wonder "Where will this come out if I keep digging straight down?"
Well, wonder no more. https://www.antipodesmap.com/ Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 07, 2022 08:29 PM (a3Q+t) 141
Problem I have is one can't dig far and not hit rock here.
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 08:30 PM (2JoB8) 142
138 My neighbor's father has one of those midget Kubota backhoes just for amusement.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin That's what they all say to the authorities! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:30 PM (hOUT3) 143
My neighbor's father has one of those midget Kubota backhoes just for amusement.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin === Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:28 PM Succinct. To the point. I dig it! Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 07, 2022 08:30 PM (a3Q+t) 144
One of my friends like to use his BB gun to shot at various cans he'd get out of his father's shed.
WD-40 is not really *that* explosive...who knew? Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:30 PM (ESjRY) 145
I'll give away my age and say that the first time I ever realized burnouts were a thing was when I was 10 years old and it was 1969. All the guys with Harleys were doing "69" burnouts on football fields, on concrete parking lots where it would show, in peoples yards, all over. I remember asking my parents what the Big Deal was about 69, but they would never really tell me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:31 PM (q3gwH) 146
The real reason Hogan's Heroes was a hit - good lord their tunnel complex was amazing. No wonder no one ever wanted to escape from Stalag 17.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 07, 2022 08:31 PM (KAi1n) 147
142 You've met my neighbor's dad.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:31 PM (lz5hY) Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 08:32 PM (V13WU) 149
I'm watching the WWII in color - the sheer brutality of US forces comes across, a lot of the British are shocked at the brutality we unleased on the Nazis - we were feared, Americans are crazy war folks - I know, I served with people that would kill the enemy just for their shoes. It is something that a lot of Russian forces don't understand. Americans, if unleased, will kill you for trophies.
Posted by: Boswell LOL-real Hollywood view of history. The British reclining on the fainting couches while the plucky Merkins win the war in 1940. Look at how many missions British airmen had to go on in bomber command and compare to the paltry number that Merkins suffered. Majority of Panzer and Panzer grenadier divisions were deployed against the British and Canadians in 1944 and 1945. Germans did not fear any of the allied forces and despite having barely an airforce suffered a 1:1 casualty rate on their western front. Posted by: General Giap at May 07, 2022 08:33 PM (9HJRA) 150
Army: dig a hole
Soldier: yes Sgt. Soldier (hour later): Hole dug Sgt. Army: nice hole soldier. Now fill it in. Posted by: US Army at May 07, 2022 08:34 PM (JrOF+) 151
Son and his Cousin are taking off in 30 minutes from Newark to Joburg South Africa to spend a month with their relatives there.
Naturally, nervous me will be staying up all night watching their flight on the FlightAware App. Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 08:35 PM (rKWLQ) 152
Succinct. To the point. I dig it!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 07, 2022 08:30 PM (a3Q+t) No more wasting time with words of explanation! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:35 PM (hOUT3) 153
I missed the Kentucky Derby. Drat.
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 08:35 PM (V13WU) 154
In light of the last few months I think we really haven't done enough to make kids understand the real history if war - like those film clips you mention.
Hollywood makes people think war is where you kill the leader of the bad guys, everyone throws down their weapons, and then you have a big ole' Ewok party. And...that's not how it works. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:36 PM (ESjRY) 155
>>> I have a hard time believing there are any sisters stupid enough to have bb gun fights like my brother and I did. Girls just aren't that stupid. I hope.
Posted by: weirdflunky at May 07, 2022 08:29 PM (cknjq) We used to take used CO2 cartridges, put in some gun powder and use them like grenades, you could hear the shrapnel flying by. Also, when I was an older dummy one guy got ahold of dry ice somewhere and we would stuff a bunch in 2liter bottles, fill it with warm water, cap and run, BOOM!. No one was ever hurt. Peace may have been disturbed. Authorities may have been alerted. Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 08:36 PM (0rQxu) 156
139 We had BB gun fights on battalion level. After action, you would gather expended CO2 cartridges, which a few of the guys used, hacksaw off the tip and stuff with kitchen match heads. Find a piece of pipe that's a close fit, insert, and ignite match heads. Cool little bazooka.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:37 PM (lz5hY) 157
69 is hole related
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2022 08:37 PM (JrOF+) 158
I have a hard time believing there are any sisters stupid enough to have bb gun fights like my brother and I did. Girls just aren't that stupid. I hope.
------ One of my brothers got a bow and arrow set and after we lost all the arrows but one we got careful and shot it straight up to see who could stand there the longest or shot it from one end of the yard to the other like we we were playing catch. Shiniest tools. Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 08:37 PM (+ya+t) 159
If you wear decent eye protection bb guns can be safe.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2022 08:38 PM (JrOF+) 160
69 is hole related
I'd have to confirm that one. Now...anyone have an X on them? No no not for me. But my male friend here only lasted 6 hours. Posted by: Sandra Fluke at May 07, 2022 08:38 PM (ESjRY) 161
What am I reading!
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 08:39 PM (Rz7nO) Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at May 07, 2022 08:39 PM (pxfp5) 163
159 If you wear decent eye protection bb guns can be safe.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2022 08:38 PM (JrOF+) Wth is the fun in that? Posted by: weirdflunky at May 07, 2022 08:39 PM (cknjq) 164
As kids we used to take the sand that had been spread on our hilly street over the course of a winter and create dams in the gutters from it to hold back the runoff from the melting snow. Great fun. Woe befell the owner of a driveway who had a substantial area covered in ice at their driveway's end if we failed to open the dam before turning in for the night and overnight temperatures fell below freezing. Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at May 07, 2022 08:40 PM (3l5Yq) 165
#144 at $9 a can WD 40 is getting pricey.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2022 08:40 PM (JrOF+) 166
Problem I have is one can't dig far and not hit rock here.
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2022 08:30 PM (2JoB/i] Try blackjack clay! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:40 PM (hOUT3) 167
Hollywood makes people think war is where you kill the leader of the bad guys, everyone throws down their weapons, and then you have a big ole' Ewok party.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:36 PM What wasn't shown was that the vanquished are the main course at the celebration known as a "Yub Nub". Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 07, 2022 08:40 PM (a3Q+t) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:41 PM (hOUT3) 169
I'm digging deep into research, after my company released four billion genetically modified mosquitos in California and Florida.
* giggle * Posted by: Billionaire Gill Bates at May 07, 2022 08:41 PM (2CsiQ) 170
Lawn Darts FTW
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2022 08:41 PM (JrOF+) 171
Big Deal was about 69, but they would never really tell me.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:31 PM (q3gwH) So, not 29? Posted by: Boswell at May 07, 2022 08:41 PM (5iUNf) 172
My neighbor's father has one of those midget Kubota backhoes just for amusement.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 07:54 PM (lz5hY) So does my uncle. Plenty fun. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 07, 2022 08:41 PM (aIbh3) 173
One of my brothers got a bow and arrow set and after we lost all the arrows but one we got careful and shot it straight up to see who could stand there the longest or shot it from one end of the yard to the other like we we were playing catch. Shiniest tools.
Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 08:37 PM (+ya+t) straight up into the air - and here I figured my brother and I were the only ones dumb enough to do that. Although I do remember thinking it would be cool and not thinking anything else about it until after I let the arrow loose. Shit didn't get real til then. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:42 PM (q3gwH) 174
We Army brats didn't have eye protection but we did have helmets. Great for rock fights in trench warfare.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2022 08:44 PM (JrOF+) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:44 PM (hOUT3) Posted by: Guy with an arrow in his head at May 07, 2022 08:44 PM (vrz2I) 177
Me and another delinquent grammar school buddy dug more than one tunnel and his mom had to grab his feet and drag him out of a cave-in when he was digging on his own. He later went Signal Corps, striinging wire on poles. I've since preferred the backhoe for digging rather than a the chinese dragline
Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2022 08:44 PM (0OP+5) 178
I thought I was the only kid obsessed with the idea of a secret underground bunker.
Posted by: Blago at May 07, 2022 08:44 PM (oICfk) Posted by: JackStraw at May 07, 2022 08:45 PM (ZLI7S) 180
Anyway, back to digging. Yours truly and a few of my friends were filling sandbags one sultry Vietnamese morning. Our SLJO (shitty little jobs officer) comes by, shakes his head and says "You guys are wearing me out just looking at you, take a break, I'll be right back". He comes back with a few real shovels to replace the E tools and a 55 gallon drum to support the sand bags as we filled them. That was my idea of an officer.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:45 PM (lz5hY) 181
You realize that if shot straight enough, and high enough, an arrow won't land at the precise point it was launched from (assuming this wasn't located at a geographic pole), due to planetary rotation?
Posted by: Wesley Crusher, Ensign, UFP Starfleet at May 07, 2022 08:46 PM (a3Q+t) 182
When life gives you snow you gotta do something with it.
Especially the free snow cones. Oh, please don't tell Jill she gets mad every time I eat a yellow one...but those are my favorites! Posted by: Joe Biden at May 07, 2022 08:46 PM (ESjRY) 183
Shut up Wesley
Posted by: Guy with an arrow in his head at May 07, 2022 08:46 PM (vrz2I) 184
SHUT UP WESLEY!
Posted by: Galatic Emperor Tank Abrams at May 07, 2022 08:47 PM (ESjRY) 185
December 78/january 79, within tolerance.
Posted by: SFGoth at May 07, 2022 08:48 PM (KAi1n) 186
100 out of 100 Germans would choose to be captured by the Americans over the Russians. At the end of Schindler's list, the Russian officer tells the Jews to not go East.
Americans could fight to win a war in the mid 19th and mid 20th centuries. But I would stake my lot as a POW of Americans over anyone else. Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 08:48 PM (Rz7nO) 187
When I was a kid, the pasture adjacent to the back yard had an unused water trough made of concrete and filled with sand. When the sand was damp, I spent numerous happy hours digging holes in it, with my hands, and creating tunnels that eventually became sand bridges.
Only problem was, I would come across small black deposits. I just dug them out and threw them on the ground. Not until I saw one of the cats poop in the trough, years later, did I realize what those black clumps were ... Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 08:48 PM (Om/di) 188
I'm analyzing the rumor on the sidebar about "justice" roberts and his "Missouri Compromise." If true, he thinks his role is a legislator/lawmaker, not a judge on the rule of law based on the Constitution. Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 08:48 PM (2PSuu) 189
I used to dig quite a bit.
Posted by: Old grunt at May 07, 2022 08:49 PM (NWKH2) 190
Speaking of Wil Wheaton, here is Ace's epic take down of him; https://ace.mu.nu/archives/376840.php
DO NO POST ON OLD THEADS Posted by: Galatic Emperor Tank Abrams at May 07, 2022 08:50 PM (ESjRY) 191
Also, my favorite part of "Hogan's Heroes" was the tunnels and their secret entrances.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 08:50 PM (Om/di) 192
I turned 50 on Wed. As part of my Bday present I took my 3 boys and myself to a "Light Saber training" at the Fencing Academy. We really had a great time. Brought back memories of Nerf Swords and Nerf axes and Nerf Maces. No you cannot buy those any more.
Posted by: Picric at May 07, 2022 08:50 PM (13tTk) 193
I'm analyzing the rumor on the sidebar about "justice" roberts and his "Missouri Compromise."
If true, he thinks his role is a legislator/lawmaker, not a judge on the rule of law based on the Constitution. Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news I don't see that over there. Whatcha lookin' at? Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 08:51 PM (rKWLQ) 194
100 out of 100 Germans would choose to be captured by the Americans over the Russians. At the end of Schindler's list, the Russian officer tells the Jews to not go East.
Speaking as someone of half German extraction, can you really blame the Russians? The Germans are lucky the Russians didn't just go all Babi Yar on them. Posted by: Chris Wallace at May 07, 2022 08:51 PM (ZsR3z) 195
189 Aussie soldiers got their nicknames "Diggers" from some prick general, who heard about conditions on Galipoli and said "well, they will just have to dig, dig, dig".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (lz5hY) 196
Future grave diggers...All though today, backhoes probably do all the work. I already have a gravestone with my name on it, some think that's strange. My mother arranged it and saved money by having it done early. Beautiful cemetery on a hillside, I'm sure I will enjoy it.
Posted by: Colin at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (YVx1O) 197
My son and I built a squirrel sling shot. Sent one 40 ft.
Posted by: Kinetic65 at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (0FLQP) Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (ZsR3z) 199
My memory is that out of the 250K Germans that surrendered in Stalingrad only 5K made it home.
The eastern front in WWII was just an endless list of horrors. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (ESjRY) 200
I turned 50 on Wed. As part of my Bday present I took my 3 boys and myself to a "Light Saber training" at the Fencing Academy. We really had a great time. Brought back memories of Nerf Swords and Nerf axes and Nerf Maces. No you cannot buy those any more.
Posted by: Picric Happy belated Birthday! I had spine surgery in 2001 and after a month no moving at all, decided to take up fencing for exercise. I loved it, but I ended up burning myself out on it by going 4 times per week for 6 straight months. I should pick it up again. I'm almost 59, but still in decent shape, and it is tremendous exercise. Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 08:53 PM (rKWLQ) 201
My son and I built a squirrel sling shot. Sent one 40 ft.
That won't stop me from getting your nuts! Posted by: Some Squirrel at May 07, 2022 08:53 PM (ESjRY) Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 08:54 PM (V13WU) 203
I don't see that over there. Whatcha lookin' at? Posted by: Sharkman It's way down, below the disgusting toe nails. Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 08:54 PM (2PSuu) 204
I watched an episode of Friends tonight. It was the one where Ross is dating some undergraduate. It gave me feelings.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:54 PM (ZsR3z) 205
The eastern front in WWII was just an endless list of horrors.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (ESjRY) Do not eff with a conscript army of peasants with a Communist "political officer" corps! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:55 PM (hOUT3) 206
Which is a better movie, Kelly's Heroes or Force Ten From Navarone? Show your work. Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 08:55 PM (2PSuu) 207
199 My memory is that out of the 250K Germans that surrendered in Stalingrad only 5K made it home.
The eastern front in WWII was just an endless list of horrors. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:52 PM (ESjRY) IIRC, there were several million pows taken by the russians back to the soviet union at the end of WWII. Want to guess how many made it back? Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 08:55 PM (dNqv+) Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 08:55 PM (V13WU) 209
So over on Althouse her commentators are ripping her a new one for her take on the possible R v W overturn.
Basically her argument is sure R v W is terrible law...but it is 50 years old...you can't just change stuff through the Supreme Court like that. As opposed to R v W, which of course changed 200 years of American law overnight. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (ESjRY) 210
I watched an episode of Friends tonight. It was the one where Ross is dating some undergraduate. It gave me feelings.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:54 PM (ZsR3z) Fortunately for you, you're umm Posted by: weirdflunky at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (cknjq) 211
If you stay at Disney's new hotel that supposedly makes you feel like your on a star cruiser, you get light saber training. All at only 6-10,000 dollars for two nights.
Posted by: Colin at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (YVx1O) 212
167 Hollywood makes people think war is where you kill the leader of the bad guys, everyone throws down their weapons, and then you have a big ole' Ewok party.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:36 PM What wasn't shown was that the vanquished are the main course at the celebration known as a "Yub Nub". Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 07, 2022 08:40 PM (a3Q+t) Lando and wedge arrive at the celebration and the first thing Han whispers to them is stick to the salad. Avoid the steak. Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (YQ7zn) 213
IIRC, there were several million pows taken by the russians back to the soviet union at the end of WWII. Want to guess how many made it back?
Want to guess how many Soviet POWs made it back? Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (ZsR3z) 214
Don't you worry about the tunnel collapsing while you're in there and dying a horrible death?
And no I do NOT put extra pillows on my couch. I put them on my bed. Posted by: JuJuBee at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (mNhhD) 215
Dart rights FTW!
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2022 08:57 PM (r26XY) 216
Fights*
Posted by: BruceWayne at May 07, 2022 08:57 PM (r26XY) 217
Took a beach vacation as a young father. Loved digging trenches for the tide to fill and then erode.
I think the boy did, too. Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 08:57 PM (Om/di) 218
If all the fat shits on The View and alex vindman went to fight in Ukraine, they'd be called... Farce Ten From Provolone. Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 08:57 PM (2PSuu) 219
Basically her argument is sure R v W is terrible law...but it is 50 years old...you can't just change stuff through the Supreme Court like that.
Okay, let's play. How old was Plessy when it was overturned by Brown? Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:57 PM (ZsR3z) 220
I watched an episode of Friends tonight. It was the one where Ross is dating some undergraduate. It gave me feelings.
Apparently Friends is on the no-no list for the left. Too many straight white people. Also, they had a tranny character they made fun of (as opposed to every other character on the show being played as a serious, heroic figure...) Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (ESjRY) Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (m51hW) 222
204 Friends. There's another American success story. That whole cast has to be stinking rich just in residual checks. Probably dead tie with the Seinfeld gang. Maybe not success, but sure in the right place at the right time.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (lz5hY) 223
213 IIRC, there were several million pows taken by the russians back to the soviet union at the end of WWII. Want to guess how many made it back?
Want to guess how many Soviet POWs made it back? Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (ZsR3z) Any that were 'freed' by the soviets were sent to siberia anyway. Great guy, that Stalin. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (dNqv+) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (hOUT3) 225
My parents, who both grew up in Milwaukee, both told me that the greatest time ever to be a kid was during the Great Milwaukee Blizzard of '47. Snow began to fall on Jan. 30, and over the next two days 16.4 inches dropped. And then cold winter continued and *nothing* melted until mid march, which was how long it took for all the roads to be plowed.
For kids, it was almost a full 6 weeks of no school and nothing to do but build endless snow forts and have epic snowball wars. (you can look it up on archival sites, it really was that bad - or good, depending on your POV) Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (q3gwH) 226
If anyone wondered why minecraft is so popular, this is why. Sure, people build cool things, but the digging is very calming.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 07, 2022 08:58 PM (CAJOC) 227
wuddup
Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at May 07, 2022 08:59 PM (YglAn) 228
Basically her argument is sure R v W is terrible law...but it is 50 years old...you can't just change stuff through the Supreme Court like that.
As opposed to R v W, which of course changed 200 years of American law overnight. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (ESjRY) Rekieta has been pointing out that the law has been recognizing a baby in the womb as a person for centuries before the US existed. That baby has property rights just like a born child would. Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 08:59 PM (YQ7zn) 229
211 If you stay at Disney's new hotel that supposedly makes you feel like your on a star cruiser, you get light saber training. All at only 6-10,000 dollars for two nights.
Posted by: Colin at May 07, 2022 08:56 PM (YVx1O) ----------------------- Do you get to massacre a bunch of toddlers at the end of it? Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 07, 2022 09:00 PM (CAJOC) 230
Lando and wedge arrive at the celebration and the first thing Han whispers to them is stick to the salad. Avoid the steak. You thought Ace was kidding about hobos? Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:01 PM (ESjRY) Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 07, 2022 09:01 PM (ybIRR) 232
They called R. E. Lee "The King of Spades" early in the Civil War. It was an insult by the troops saying he was always digging in. They could not have judged their man more poorly. And to a man, they would admit that
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (Rz7nO) 233
Trespassed the Belshaw shaft at Cerro Gordo mines, ladders were old dynamite boxes. 900 feet.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (m51hW) 234
Long time ago- seems like a thousand centuries- I worked on a street crew for a gas company. So I have dug professionally.
Posted by: DB at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (geLO8) Posted by: Some Disney Exec at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (ESjRY) 236
Speaking as someone of half German extraction, can you really blame the Russians? The Germans are lucky the Russians didn't just go all Babi Yar on them.
Posted by: Chris Wallace I'm surprised that the Russians didn't kill everyone in Germany and replace the population with their own people, like they tried to do to Ukraine in the 20s and 30s. They probably would have, except they lost almost 40 million dead in the war and didn't have anyone to populate Germany. Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (rKWLQ) 237
I watched an episode of Friends tonight. It was the one where Ross is dating some undergraduate. It gave me feelings.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 08:54 PM (ZsR3z) Fortunately for you, you're umm I didn't watch it to the end, but when I first saw that episode I was 29. I'm not 29 any more. Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (ZsR3z) 238
LOL-real Hollywood view of history. The British reclining on the fainting couches while the plucky Merkins win the war in 1940. Look at how many missions British airmen had to go on in bomber command and compare to the paltry number that Merkins suffered. Majority of Panzer and Panzer grenadier divisions were deployed against the British and Canadians in 1944 and 1945.
Germans did not fear any of the allied forces and despite having barely an airforce suffered a 1:1 casualty rate on their western front. Posted by: General Giap at May 07, 2022 08:33 PM (9HJRA) They feared us plenty. One move and they'd have more artillery coming down on them than anything they'd seen short of the first day of a Russian main offensive. Then the Tac-air would come by and shoot anything that moved. The amount of stuff we would use like it didn't mean anything was a game changer. Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2022 09:03 PM (eoQWY) 239
Do you get to massacre a bunch of toddlers at the end of it?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at May 07, 2022 09:00 PM (CAJOC) Just to play devil's advocate, anyone connected in any way with calling them "younglings" needed to die. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 09:05 PM (q3gwH) 240
153 I missed the Kentucky Derby. Drat.
It was a close game til the fourth period, and then Richard Petty threw a 75 yard pass to Silver to win. Three big crashes that made for extended yellow flag periods. Posted by: azjaeger at May 07, 2022 09:05 PM (3/XaG) 241
My grandsons and their friends love to dig. The teacher makes them fill the holes, though, so that other classes don't trip and break their ankles...next day digging again. They like to build lakes and villages
Posted by: CN at May 07, 2022 09:05 PM (ONvIw) 242
They feared us plenty. One move and they'd have more artillery coming down on them than anything they'd seen short of the first day of a Russian main offensive. Then the Tac-air would come by and shoot anything that moved.
Das ist richtig. The mistake is in assuming that effectiveness = number of your guys killed. Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 09:06 PM (ZsR3z) 243
That baby has property rights just like a born child would.
Indeed. I remember reading about Alexander the Great's Empire after his death. He had impregnated the Princess Roxanna when he died and the whole Macedonian leadership waited to see if the baby would be a boy or a girl to determine who would rule. When a boy was born he nominally became King, though with a regent of course. He never did fully come into his own though as he was assassinated before he could. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:07 PM (ESjRY) 244
This digging? It's not all it's cracked up to be.
Posted by: Cool Hands Luke at May 07, 2022 09:07 PM (ZsR3z) 245
When I ets'd I worked for a local public works that did everything. Water main breaks were always interesting. Guy in the hole wore fireman boots pulled up, if the hole collapsed we'd grab the tractor bucket and he'd pull us up out of the boots. Don't think you can do that anymore.
Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 09:07 PM (+ya+t) 246
Okay, let's play. How old was Plessy when it was overturned by Brown?
Posted by: Archimedes 58 years (Brown was 1954 and Plessy was 1896). Roe is 49 years old this year. Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:07 PM (rKWLQ) 247
Monica dates a high school kid in one episode. The funny/sad thing about sitcoms, even ones that went deep into the 2000s, is they would all be cancelled today. Not for the sex,. But the gay jokes.
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:07 PM (Rz7nO) 248
Also, my favorite part of "Hogan's Heroes" was the tunnels and their secret entrances.
Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 08:50 PM (Om/di) The funniest bit was when they needed a place for the Germans to dig that DIDN'T have a tunnel under it. Turns out there was just one small spot about 3 by 3. foot Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2022 09:08 PM (eoQWY) 249
Anything unusual happening in my old neighborhood and there were a dozen kids present within about 15 seconds.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2022 09:09 PM (EZebt) 250
Also, my favorite part of "Hogan's Heroes" was the tunnels and their secret entrances.
Yeah, I excavated a lot of tunnels. Good times. Posted by: Bob Crane at May 07, 2022 09:09 PM (ZsR3z) 251
I'm surprised that the Russians didn't kill everyone in Germany and replace the population with their own people.
They did have a policy of raping German women they came across though...which I guess is a compromise between massacring everyone and being civilized. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:10 PM (ESjRY) 252
Quite a lot of leftism is "Replacing what works, with what sounds good".
Like harebrained lunatics, or perhaps children. Sane people don't pay them any mind. "Let's get Rid Of All Fossil Fuels!" Then, a bunch of people freeze to death, chaos ensues, yadda yadda yadda. Some of the "social issues" were hashed out 5,000 years ago. Human nature doesn't change. America likes to go from one extreme to the other. At one time, people were smoking on elevators. Today, it's largely illegal, even outside. Not sure what happens going forward, but if the pendulum ever does swing the other way, if that's even possible... Yikes Posted by: Common Tater at May 07, 2022 09:10 PM (WynLa) 253
Re: Eastern Front WWII: if you are going to fight a country with the basic assumption by your forces that your opponents are not really human and treat them that way, you had better be really, really sure you are going to win.
Posted by: azjaeger at May 07, 2022 09:10 PM (3/XaG) 254
232 They called R. E. Lee "The King of Spades" early in the Civil War. It was an insult by the troops saying he was always digging in. They could not have judged their man more poorly. And to a man, they would admit that
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:02 PM (Rz7nO) Another nickname along these lines; Phil Sheridan's own men called him "the Jack of Clubs", because everyone who saw him and his rather long greasy black hair agreed that was exactly what he looked like. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 09:10 PM (q3gwH) 255
I skip a lot of links posted here. I'm glad I didn't skip this one.
Posted by: creeper That was awesome! And I expected Peter Gabriel. Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 07, 2022 09:13 PM (OssQ4) 256
Didn't Roe herself recant and say she disowned the entire thing? For sure no conservative mentions that because why help? Sure it is anecdotal and should not matter. But this country lives and breaths on the annecdotal. There is a reason why the Amber Heard thing is the biggest news in the country.
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:13 PM (Rz7nO) 257
Anything unusual happening in my old neighborhood and there were a dozen kids present within about 15 seconds.
----- It's a joy watching a guy work who knows what he's doing. Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 09:13 PM (+ya+t) 258
Spent about the past hour or so getting my thrash on. Good times.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at May 07, 2022 09:14 PM (II3Gr) 259
if you are going to fight a country with the basic assumption by your forces that your opponents are not really human and treat them that way
I tend to believe the Germans lost WWII preciously because of the Holocaust and what they did in Eastern Europe. Had they been like the Germany of WWI I suspect they would have won or at least forced a stalemate that left them most of Europe. Just having a million Ukrainian soldiers (and the Ukrainians were begging to fight for them) would have made a big difference in 42/43... Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:14 PM (ESjRY) 260
So Althouse is one of those prolife bitches that when it comes to actually seeing success on that front she reveals herself to be pro choice. Is there any conservative principle she has claimed to hold that she didn't immediately flip on when succes was going to happen?
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:15 PM (YQ7zn) 261
Watching a dog dig a hole is fun, too.
They are so motivated. You never see a dog half-assing it when digging a hole. No sir. They are on a mission! Posted by: Common Tater at May 07, 2022 09:15 PM (WynLa) 262
"20 He's been trying to put in a hydroelectric generation setup at the mill, but has been stymied by all the insane government regulation involved so far."
If he's actually been talking to government people it's probably too late to just toss one in and say "That's always been there." Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 07, 2022 09:16 PM (2dX9D) 263
Does anyone have a good Action Scifi suggestion for watching among recent past few year's movie releases?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 09:16 PM (0fVbu) 264
I just watched 2000 Mules. It is excellent.
https://dinesh.locals.com/?showPosts=1 and just click 'let me see the content first' Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2022 09:17 PM (r0Wry) 265
Had they been like the Germany of WWI I suspect they would have won or at least forced a stalemate that left them most of Europe. Just having a million Ukrainian soldiers (and the Ukrainians were begging to fight for them) would have made a big difference in 42/43...
How exactly does one walk away from the clearly stated position that everyone else is an Ubermensch deserving of death? Ahh, those guys are okay. Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 09:17 PM (ZsR3z) 266
Didn't Roe herself recant and say she disowned the entire thing?
Norma McCorvey became a pro-life activist, and was even arrested for protesting at the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearing. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:18 PM (ESjRY) 267
I just saw that zelensky is the same height and build as nancy pelosi. Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 09:19 PM (2PSuu) 268
How exactly does one walk away from the clearly stated position that everyone else is an Ubermensch deserving of death?
You don't. Which is why the Germans decided to not arm anti-Soviet Russians/Ukrainians. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:19 PM (ESjRY) 269
I just saw that zelensky is the same height and build as nancy pelosi.
Probably bathed in the blood of fewer infants though. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:20 PM (ESjRY) 270
Travel & Leisure magazine says one of the top 25 beaches in America is in
Colorado https://tinyurl.com/2k6krds2 Posted by: DB at May 07, 2022 09:20 PM (geLO8) 271
263 Does anyone have a good Action Scifi suggestion for watching among recent past few year's movie releases?
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 09:16 PM (0fVbu) Edge of Tomorrow Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:20 PM (YQ7zn) Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:20 PM (vrz2I) 273
I tend to believe the Germans lost WWII preciously because of the Holocaust and what they did in Eastern Europe.
Had they been like the Germany of WWI I suspect they would have won or at least forced a stalemate that left them most of Europe. Just having a million Ukrainian soldiers (and the Ukrainians were begging to fight for them) would have made a big difference in 42/43... Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:14 PM (ESjRY) Perhaps, but it was Hitler who forced the Army to use the risky Sickle-Cut that wiped out the cream of the French army rather than a standard frontal attack like in WWI. It was also him that did the risky invasion of Norway that protected the Swedish ore imports for the war. Hitler at least had some sense of logistics, the Army tended to have none at all. The Germany of WWI wasn't that much better -- they forgot that all their Nitre to make ammo came from Chile. Lucky for them their chemists found a way just in time to do it in a lab or they'd have run out. Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2022 09:21 PM (eoQWY) 274
Didn't Roe herself recant and say she disowned the entire thing? For sure no conservative mentions that because why help? Sure it is anecdotal and should not matter. But this country lives and breaths on the anecdotal. There is a reason why the Amber Heard thing is the biggest news in the country.
Posted by: Quint Norma McCorvey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_McCorvey She was a mess. Became religious after her abortion and worked in the anti-abortion movement. Supposedly claimed on her "deathbed" that she was paid to be anti-abortion by "right-wingers". She was a profoundly broken human being. Died in 2017. Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:22 PM (rKWLQ) 275
Probably old news by now, but "no charges" filed against the tranny who tried to kill Dave Chappelle. Chapelle is said to be "furious." Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 09:22 PM (2PSuu) 276
Speaking of tunnels, the craziest thing, I have ever done, was spelunking in a off the books cave in the middle of Appalachia with primitive lights.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 08:03 PM (hOUT3) Try the Wild Cave tour at the Inner Space Cavern near Austin. Posted by: Theodore at May 07, 2022 09:23 PM (GJnvT) 277
So Zelensky is built like a sun dried lizard?
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:23 PM (vrz2I) 278
By the sound of girlfriend's description, boyfriend is being ... well, as safe as mining gets, what with concrete beams to shore it up and all.
Although I would hope they are steel reinforced, and he's actually done load calculations. Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 07, 2022 09:23 PM (2dX9D) 279
Probably old news by now, but "no charges" filed against the tranny who tried to kill Dave Chappelle.
Chapelle is said to be "furious." Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 09:22 PM (2PSuu) Welcome to Los Angeles, Dave. Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2022 09:23 PM (eoQWY) Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:24 PM (ESjRY) 281
ZeroHedge has a story that Hunter Biden's password on his laptop was "AnalF**k69"
Weirdly that's also Obama's password. Posted by: Ian S. at May 07, 2022 09:25 PM (1TuZk) 282
Probably old news by now, but "no charges" filed against the tranny who tried to kill Dave Chappelle. Chapelle is said to be "furious." Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news Gee, I wonder which way Chapelle votes? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2022 09:25 PM (63Dwl) 283
so is there a movie thread about a director I've never heard of, or do we go right into ONT
Posted by: DB at May 07, 2022 09:25 PM (geLO8) 284
By the sound of girlfriend's description, boyfriend is being ... well, as safe as mining gets, what with concrete beams to shore it up and all.
Although I would hope they are steel reinforced, and he's actually done load calculations. Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 07, 2022 09:23 PM (2dX9D) Close to where I grew up some semi-crazy dude decided to make a castle out of rocks he'd fished up out of the river, or whereever. He was still alive when I went there, nice enough guys letting teens explore it on a Friday night in summer. It was huge - look it up its Loveland Castle now, a state park. Posted by: Oldcat at May 07, 2022 09:26 PM (eoQWY) Posted by: Wakey...wakey... at May 07, 2022 09:26 PM (ESjRY) 286
She was a mess. Became religious after her abortion and worked in the anti-abortion movement. Supposedly claimed on her "deathbed" that she was paid to be anti-abortion by "right-wingers". She was a profoundly broken human being. Died in 2017.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09 She didn't have an abortion. Case was decided after years after the baby was born. Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:26 PM (YQ7zn) 287
Judge Pirro said there couldn't be felony charges because the guy wasn't holding the knife gun.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2022 09:27 PM (63Dwl) 288
>>> Edge of Tomorrow
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:20 PM (YQ7zn) I've seen that and liked it. Anything else like that? Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (0fVbu) 289
Try the Wild Cave tour at the Inner Space Cavern near Austin.
Posted by: Theodore at May 07, 2022 09:23 PM (GJnvT) A "tour" sounds semi-organized with safety plans... Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (hOUT3) 290
so is there a movie thread about a director I've never heard of, or do we go right into ONT
We can always discuss the under-appreciated 1942 film "Famous Boners". Posted by: Ian S. at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (1TuZk) Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (2PSuu) 292
Spent about the past hour or so getting my thrash on. Good times.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. Listening to what, pray tell? Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (rKWLQ) 293
I was 21 years old before I ever saw snow.
Posted by: Theodore at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (GJnvT) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (63Dwl) 295
@262
Remember treat the government like mushrooms, feed them shit and keep them in the dark. Never ask permission, play dumb ask 'forgiveness' only if caught. Lie, just like in Islam it's permissible to lie to infidels, it is perfectly OK to lie to the government if it makes your life easier. Here in Oregon if you dam or divert even a seasonal trickle you get an EPA enema. We can't even collect the governments rain water. Posted by: KarlHungus at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (TId/f) 296
I think I'm going to try the new ghostbusters, it's kind of on sale, I hope it doesn't suck.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (0fVbu) 297
How do you pour concrete beams by yourself in a hand dug underground lair? Asking because I am genuinely curious.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (vrz2I) 298
Then who was holding the "knife-gun?"
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (2PSuu)/i] It's a mystery, for sure! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (hOUT3) 299
I think I'm going to try the new ghostbusters, it's kind of on sale, I hope it doesn't suck.
Afterlife? I loved it. It's not perfect like the first one, but it's better than GB2 and we won't even talk about the all-women one. Posted by: Ian S. at May 07, 2022 09:30 PM (1TuZk) 300
Supposedly claimed on her "deathbed" that she was paid to be anti-abortion by "right-wingers"
Let's just say that argument is...doubtful. And Abby Johnson claims that days before her death McCovey re-iterated her opposition to abortion. Must be a hell of a thing though, to fell the guilt for all those deaths. Can't imagine what it would do to a person mentally...and she had issues outside of that as well... Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:30 PM (ESjRY) 301
292 Spent about the past hour or so getting my thrash on. Good times.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. Listening to what, pray tell? Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:28 PM (rKWLQ) My guitar playing. Was doing some Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer riffs, some alternate picking speed exercises, and then just cutting loose for a few minutes. Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at May 07, 2022 09:30 PM (II3Gr) 302
I LOVE Famous Boners!
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 07, 2022 09:31 PM (ESjRY) 303
Boyfriend has Aspergers Syndrome - a mild form of Autism, and one of the symptoms is being obsessive about strange hobbies & whatnot.
He'll also be not very people-oriented & prefer to be alone most of the time. They tend to be *very* smart, and you'll find a lot of them working in Silicon Valley. Posted by: MrJimm at May 07, 2022 09:31 PM (w0GHq) 304
She said it was in the backpack.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (63Dwl)/i] So it was never seen by ANY witnesses? "Don't make me open this backpack or you'll be sorry?" Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:31 PM (hOUT3) Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:32 PM (vrz2I) 306
Does anyone have a good Action Scifi suggestion for watching among recent past few year's movie releases?
Posted by: banana Dream Edge of Tomorrow Posted by: Buzzion Edge of Tomorrow, Battleship or Battle: Los Angeles. There are a few Russian movies - Attraction and its sequel, and Sputnik (which is awesome). Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:32 PM (rKWLQ) 307
296 I think I'm going to try the new ghostbusters, it's kind of on sale, I hope it doesn't suck.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (0fVbu) I thought it was ok. Not going to be for everyone. I thought the female characters were done to the point where you don't fall into the "Grrrrrl Power! Slay Queen!" Crap. Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:32 PM (YQ7zn) 308
Jen Aniston's godfather was Telly Savalas.
Posted by: The Shell Answer Man at May 07, 2022 09:32 PM (g6+Ik) 309
254 they could be cruel back then, but also clever. The Yanks called on of their German units "The Flying Dutchmen" after they were purported to of run away at Chancellorsville.
A worse nickname for Lee early on was Grannie. Again they all ate their words. BTW, Grannie was a nick of many Generals on both sides. It was by far the one no one wanted to be called BTW, the reason I always refer to Lee as R. E. Lee is that is how he referred to himself. In all correspondence, it was always R.E. Lee. Not rare for that time period at all, but that is why I do it Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:33 PM (Rz7nO) 310
308 yeah, she is one hot Greek
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:34 PM (Rz7nO) 311
It's gonna be really cool when he gets the firing range down there.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:35 PM (vrz2I) 312
Here in Oregon if you dam or divert even a seasonal trickle you get an EPA enema. We can't even collect the governments rain water.
Posted by: KarlHungus at May 07, 2022 09:29 PM (TId/f) In Washington State you cannot collect rain water for personal use. Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2022 09:35 PM (anj39) 313
I just saw that zelensky is the same height and build as nancy pelosi.
- And every bit as honest. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, If Not Now, When? at May 07, 2022 09:35 PM (FVME7) 314
Insomniac, consider bringing the guitar to the TxMoMe.
Posted by: Theodore at May 07, 2022 09:35 PM (GJnvT) 315
Recent SF action movies:
I too liked Edge of Tomorrow, Tenet, Happy Death Day. The Adam Project was a good family sf film (surprisingly enough for Netflix) Prospect is good Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 07, 2022 09:36 PM (kf6Ak) 316
The consternation of my life is that I believe in honor and follow rules. I do not lie (but I confess to dissimulation--I answer the question asked.)
Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at May 07, 2022 09:36 PM (REJkJ) 317
In Washington State you cannot collect rain water for personal use.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2022 09:35 PM (anj39) \ Da, is for common good comrade! I am so old, I remember when you actually owned your property! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:36 PM (hOUT3) 318
Everyone laughs at the exessive digging guy until he hits pockets of gold, then oil then opens up a new smuggling route to China.
Besides, he'll also have a spiffy place to hide all the bodies of all the people that pissed him off, by doing things like trying to harsh his digging joy. Posted by: Hereogar at May 07, 2022 09:37 PM (vxOXM) 319
208. Yes my Birthday is Star Wars day. Bad news as a kid there was no such thing. Star Wars day happened when I was an "Adult."
Posted by: Picric at May 07, 2022 09:37 PM (13tTk) 320
314 Insomniac, consider bringing the guitar to the TxMoMe.
Posted by: Theodore at May 07, 2022 09:35 PM (GJnvT) Definitely considering it. I'll need to learn some more ZZ Top though. Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at May 07, 2022 09:38 PM (II3Gr) 321
260 So Althouse is one of those prolife bitches that when it comes to actually seeing success on that front she reveals herself to be pro choice. Is there any conservative principle she has claimed to hold that she didn't immediately flip on when succes was going to happen?
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:15 PM (YQ7zn) She has always pretty much said the only reason she votes Dem is because of abortion. It is her entire political keystone. This does not surprise me and should not her readers either. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:38 PM (dNqv+) 322
"In Washington State you cannot collect rain water for personal use"
What if you stand out in the rain with your mouth open? Surely there is a exemption for that. Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:38 PM (vrz2I) 323
289 A "tour" sounds semi-organized with safety plans...
Well, most of it is crawling on your belly or on your hands and knees through very narrow passages. One guy fell off a ledge, but he wasn't hurt too bad. Posted by: Theodore at May 07, 2022 09:39 PM (GJnvT) 324
She didn't have an abortion. Case was decided after years after the baby was born.
Posted by: Buzzion Yes, you are correct. She gave the child up for adoption, and the Supreme Court ignored the fact that as a non-pregnant woman, she had no "standing" to be part of the case. Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:39 PM (rKWLQ) 325
Electrons must be guys, because they love to quantum tunnel.
*Electron dude, you don't have the energy to get there from here.* Oh yeah, hold my spin and watch this. Posted by: GnuBreed at May 07, 2022 09:39 PM (F0YaR) 326
Watching the first episode of Open Range.
Have these people never looked through binoculars before? Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:39 PM (dNqv+) 327
Svengoolie just said Gilbert Gottfried was a friend of the show. Of course. That makes so much sense. RIP Gilbert.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 07, 2022 09:40 PM (/Qz4j) 328
I also liked Tom Cruise's Oblivion. But that's a bit light on the action side. Still does have some though.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:40 PM (YQ7zn) 329
Quint, I'd rather be be named after Robert E. Lee than John Wayne. And that's saying a lot.
Posted by: Eromero at May 07, 2022 09:41 PM (0OP+5) 330
My guitar playing. Was doing some Metallica, Anthrax, and Slayer riffs, some alternate picking speed exercises, and then just cutting loose for a few minutes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. Righteous! Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:41 PM (rKWLQ) 331
What if you stand out in the rain with your mouth open? Surely there is a exemption for that.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:38 PM (vrz2I) Then you get a free trip to a place called Western State. Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2022 09:42 PM (anj39) 332
Blade Runner 2049
Posted by: 18-1 I liked that movie up until Harrison Ford appeared then, I thought, it began to drag. They apparently thought we were supposed to go all aquiver just gazing upon him. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, If Not Now, When? at May 07, 2022 09:42 PM (FVME7) 333
email today:
"More than 5,000 people from all over Texas joined Beto earlier today in Houston for a rally for reproductive rights" as per google, Houston has a population of 2.3 million. Quite a turnout. Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 07, 2022 09:42 PM (Ynyl9) 334
Well shit. I took a spill tonight. Nothing broken but left side of my nose and my forehead will have a nasty bruise tomorrow.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (nxdel) Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (u82oZ) 336
She's just mad he's not busy digging HER tunnel.
I only checked the comments to see how long it took for this comment to appear. 18th was within the margin of error for my estimate. Thank you for upholding the standard! Posted by: Squid at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (glcnD) 337
he has always pretty much said the only reason she votes Dem is because of abortion. It is her entire political keystone. This does not surprise me and should not her readers either.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:38 PM (dNqv+) Are you telling me the bitch actually has an intellectually honest position. Wow I'm shocked. I'm just not shocked it's about murdering babies. Is she still only allowing comments she or her cuck husband approves of? Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (YQ7zn) 338
You cannot match or surpass the original Bladerunner. 2049 plot was drek, but visually a great work.
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:45 PM (V13WU) 339
Speaking of tunnels, the craziest thing, I have ever done, was spelunking in a off the books cave in the middle of Appalachia with primitive lights.
I did the same, but spent the night in a cave with a 180" sheer drop to enter. This was during Agnes. When the time came to exit, there was a rather large waterfall where we had entered. We endeavored to perservere, and jumarred our way out through the waterfall. It was exhilarating. Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 09:45 PM (ZsR3z) 340
oh, no Jewells. What happened? Hope you are ok!
Posted by: Infidel at May 07, 2022 09:45 PM (M0FJx) 341
334 Well shit. I took a spill tonight. Nothing broken but left side of my nose and my forehead will have a nasty bruise tomorrow.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (nxdel) Getting your cover story worked out I see. Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at May 07, 2022 09:45 PM (II3Gr) 342
180', not 180"
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2022 09:45 PM (ZsR3z) 343
I'd like to see "House Of Wax" in 3D. Paddleball dude is awesome.
Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:46 PM (vrz2I) Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:46 PM (rKWLQ) 345
Jewels ! Iced it down.
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:47 PM (V13WU) 346
*Ice
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:47 PM (V13WU) 347
Commissar Hrothgar
Mud Cave in the Ozarks was my first wild cave. Very bad idea. I owe you a catchup email. Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 07, 2022 09:47 PM (u82oZ) Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2022 09:47 PM (anj39) 349
as per google, Houston has a population of 2.3 million. Quite a turnout.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at May 07, 2022 09:42 PM (Ynyl9) Well, to be fair, it was Saturday night in Houston, so... Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:47 PM (hOUT3) 350
ZOD.
Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:47 PM (x8kT3) 351
Jewells, whenever you hit your head hard enough to bruise, it can be a good idea to check in with the emergency room just to make sure you're okay.
Posted by: Sharkman at May 07, 2022 09:48 PM (rKWLQ) 352
Well shit. I took a spill tonight. Nothing broken but left side of my nose and my forehead will have a nasty bruise tomorrow.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (nxdel) Please compare to photos of Amber Heards supposed DV photos. Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:48 PM (YQ7zn) Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:48 PM (hOUT3) 354
I am so old, I remember when you actually owned your property!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ---------------- Ain't that a hoot. Obviously, you don't hail from a blue state. Posted by: Braenyard at May 07, 2022 09:48 PM (/i5sE) 355
>>352 Well shit. I took a spill tonight. Nothing broken but left side of my nose and my forehead will have a nasty bruise tomorrow. Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (nxdel)
You could sell yourself for meat. Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (x8kT3) 356
Getting your cover story worked out I see.
Posted by: Insomniac Clever, now she has documented time-stamped evidence... Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (hOUT3) 357
{{{Jewells45}}}
Oh my gosh! Did your need a better alibi? I may be able to help. And is your husband comforting you, or comatose? Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (u82oZ) Posted by: Braenyard at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (/i5sE) 359
@322 --
What if you stand out in the rain with your mouth open? During a heavy rainstorm a few years ago, a thick branch fell off the tall oak in the backyard -- onto the power lines. Wife sent me out to knock it loose. I got the rake, went out under the target area, looked up -- and got smacked in the face by a torrent of rain. Didn't think about that until then. (I did get the branch off the wire.) Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (Om/di) 360
Obviously, you don't hail from a blue state.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 07, 2022 09:48 PM (/i5sE) True, for now, but if the progs have their way... Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:51 PM (hOUT3) 361
I spend a ridiculous amount of time clearing the debris from the creek behind my house.
If I don’t, it turns into a massive mosquito breeding ground Posted by: Pmrich at May 07, 2022 09:51 PM (mrX66) 362
"BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — The Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, which seeks unification with Ireland, hailed a “new era” Saturday for Northern Ireland as it captured the largest number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly for the first time in a historic win."
uh oh. "The victory means Sinn Fein is entitled to the post of first minister in Belfast for the first time since Northern Ireland was founded as a Protestant-majority state in 1921." Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:51 PM (V13WU) 363
The Horse Soldiers with John Wayne and William Holden are on later. I've seen it before but I can't remember if there were shots of Sherman's Neckties, where they bent the rails into loops.
Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 09:51 PM (+ya+t) 364
I am going to say it. One of the liveliest and most interesting threads in recent memory
Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2022 09:52 PM (Rz7nO) 365
Could Brave make the side and bottom scroll bar any smaller or more pale?
Posted by: Braenyard at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (/i5sE) Please do not give them ideas! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:52 PM (hOUT3) 366
"thick branch fell off the tall oak in the backyard -- onto the power lines. Wife sent me out to knock it loose"
Had she recently taken out an insurance policy on you? Posted by: fd at May 07, 2022 09:52 PM (vrz2I) 367
ZOD !
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:52 PM (V13WU) 368
ZOD, you look marvelous !
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:52 PM (V13WU) Posted by: Infidel at May 07, 2022 09:53 PM (M0FJx) 370
My grandson got me to watch a new Halo series out, focused on Master Chief. 7 episodes so far, surprisingly good. In style and production quality, it reminds me a lot of The Mandalorian. Clearly they have just scratched the surface of the Halo universe so far.
and not just a good story, but pretty good combat sci-fi. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 09:53 PM (q3gwH) 371
Are you telling me the bitch actually has an intellectually honest position. Wow I'm shocked. I'm just not shocked it's about murdering babies.
Is she still only allowing comments she or her cuck husband approves of? Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (YQ7zn) I dunno- I do not read her. She makes moves of intellectual curiosity and even makes some good points occasionally- but her entire world, politically, is abortion. She would happily see the Left liquidate every conservative, molest every child, do ANYTHING as long as abortion was preserved. She's a fucking idiot. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:54 PM (dNqv+) 372
>>368 ZOD, you look marvelous ! Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:52 PM (V13WU)
Thank you, friend. I love you. Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (x8kT3) 373
363 The Horse Soldiers with John Wayne and William Holden are on later. I've seen it before but I can't remember if there were shots of Sherman's Neckties, where they bent the rails into loops.
Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 09:51 PM (+ya+t) There were, iirc. Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (dNqv+) 374
355 >>352 Well shit. I took a spill tonight. Nothing broken but left side of my nose and my forehead will have a nasty bruise tomorrow. Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 09:44 PM (nxdel)
You could sell yourself for meat. Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (x8kT3) ------- Do you know how much organs are going for in China? Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (93Arc) 375
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:54 PM (dNqv+)
You left out the obligatory term "scum"! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (hOUT3) 376
Thank you, friend. I love you.
Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (x8kT3) ZOD, I love you more ! Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (V13WU) 377
ANYTHING as long as abortion was preserved.
And she's beyond the age where she has to worry about getting pregnant. So this will to sacrifice her freedom, her reputation, her honor all for the "right" of someone else to kill their child. Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2022 09:56 PM (ESjRY) 378
I'm fine. I was trying to recover a treat I threw on the floor for Moose and it landed under the counter. Just lost my balance.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 07, 2022 09:56 PM (nxdel) 379
370 My grandson got me to watch a new Halo series out, focused on Master Chief. 7 episodes so far, surprisingly good. In style and production quality, it reminds me a lot of The Mandalorian. Clearly they have just scratched the surface of the Halo universe so far.
and not just a good story, but pretty good combat sci-fi. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 202 That is the complete opposite view I have heard from every Halo fan. It's not Halo it's garbage. Focus on characters created just for the show and not from the games or established lore. Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:57 PM (YQ7zn) 380
I think I recall that The Horse Soldiers is loosely based on Grierson's Raid, one of the most successful cavalry raids of the war.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 09:57 PM (q3gwH) 381
>>Do you know how much organs are going for in China? Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 07, 2022 09:55 PM (93Arc)
No. Report. Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:57 PM (x8kT3) 382
Was in LA for an errand, right downtown, and after lunch at Grand Central Market went across the street to check out the Bradbury building. Didn't remember the Bladerunner scene, but just saw it on UToob.
The woodwork and tile and marble, none of which of course really come through in the movie scene, are amazing. Glass roof is still the same. You can only look around the ground floor, but it's impressive. Think it was fully restored after the movie, there are now tenants in some of the offices. Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2022 09:57 PM (OTzUX) 383
FJB announced that 100 million, maybe more, are going to be infected with a new Covid variant that will arrive sufficiently before the midterms to give the Marxist-Fascist Uniparty lots of opportunity to rig the election.
To honor this sequel to the 2020 election cock up I am naming this new variant Biden-22. Rumors are swirling that this is actually a whole new virus based on a single swine's DNA residing in the White House Posted by: Lost In Space at May 07, 2022 09:58 PM (yqbGG) 384
When I was a kid growing up in Las Vegas, there definitely was a thrill to digging tunnels in the desert -- or in a friend's backyard pile of wet sand -- that didn't cave in.
It seemed to defy what our pea brains understood to be the laws of physics ... Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 07, 2022 09:58 PM (93Arc) 385
That is the complete opposite view I have heard from every Halo fan. It's not Halo it's garbage. Focus on characters created just for the show and not from the games or established lore.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2022 09:57 PM (YQ7zn) he's too young to know much about Halo, and I'm too old. So for us, it works. Posted by: Tom Servo at May 07, 2022 09:58 PM (q3gwH) 386
@366 --
I do have life insurance, but I've been alive long enough that she wouldn't benefit much from it. Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 09:59 PM (Om/di) 387
Does the abortion kerfuffle mean that shim can no longer abort their man-womb "babies?"
Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:59 PM (x8kT3) 388
Maybe willowed? Will repeat last comment if there's a movie thread, as it's more appropriate there.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2022 10:00 PM (OTzUX) 389
I read recently some vaccinated , boosted and reboosted celebrity (don't ask me who that was, I don't keep their names in my head) got covid for the SECOND time.
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 10:00 PM (V13WU) 390
Holy shit Kentucky Derby. Zod likes to watch the ponies.
Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 10:01 PM (x8kT3) 391
382 Was in LA for an errand, right downtown, and after lunch at Grand Central Market went across the street to check out the Bradbury building. Didn't remember the Bladerunner scene, but just saw it on UToob.
The woodwork and tile and marble, none of which of course really come through in the movie scene, are amazing. Glass roof is still the same. You can only look around the ground floor, but it's impressive. Think it was fully restored after the movie, there are now tenants in some of the offices. Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2022 09:57 PM (OTzUX) ------- Wifey and I always get a kick out of watching Demolition Man, parts of which were filmed in and around Irvine (Park Plaza) & Costa Mesa, near where we used to live. I used to work in the "Taco Bell" corporate HQ building on the Avenue of the Arts in Costa Mesa. Posted by: ShainS -- Kraken of Misinformation Online at May 07, 2022 10:01 PM (93Arc) 392
Thought I was the only Grit fan.
----- My go to is always Grit but I like moviestvnetwork.com for noir and recently storytelevision.com some old lame stuff but things I never knew, which is a lot, lol. Posted by: dartist at May 07, 2022 10:01 PM (+ya+t) 393
Are they replaying it ?? I need to watch it somewhere.
Posted by: runner, give Stanislawow back to Poland ! at May 07, 2022 10:01 PM (V13WU) 394
Does the abortion kerfuffle mean that shim can no longer abort their man-womb "babies?"
Posted by: ZOD at May 07, 2022 09:59 PM (x8kT3) The term "birthing persons' is now retroactively a part of R v W! Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~every book has been totally rewritten ~ at May 07, 2022 10:01 PM (hOUT3) Posted by: Zettai at May 07, 2022 10:02 PM (h3UoX) 396
I got the rake, went out under the target area, looked up -- and got smacked in the face by a torrent of rain. Didn't think about that until then.
(I did get the branch off the wire.) Posted by: Weak Geek at May 07, 2022 09:50 PM (Om/di) You are lucky you didn't get electrocuted. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2022 10:04 PM (El0oR) Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2022 10:04 PM (l0mb7) 398
ShainS, haven't seen that movie, maybe should. On the way back from the errand downtown we stopped in Costa Mesa, actually, for 1) booze run and 2) ramen.
Hi Times Wine and Liquor, you probably know it? Great selection of stuff not easily found elsewhere, in this case some aged rum and calvados. And their prices actually beat Total Wine's, which is impressive. Costa Mesa's become sort of the center of ramen in SoCal (which would mean the US). Makes some sense, given the Japanese corporate presence first in Torrance, then Irvine. Several branches of Japanese shops, and in this last case a new-ish one opened by an acolyte of a Fukuoka (Hakata) mentor. Very good (Kashiwa Ramen, Baker Street). Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2022 10:05 PM (OTzUX) 399
She's a fucking idiot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 07, 2022 09:54 PM (dNqv+) "Evil cnut" is closer to the truth. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2022 10:05 PM (El0oR) 400
It's not just about digging the hole. That's only half the fun. It's also about moving the dirt to another location.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 07, 2022 10:10 PM (kXYt5) 401
nuke.twister.zombie proof tunnel lair? Hydro shaping empondments, riffles, rip rap...waterfalls, millraces? Mountains where previously only mole hills roamed?
THAT is "Manscaping" not that silly willy shaving, coiffed crotch, nether nuding, gay guy, testicular tonsorial twaddle. Posted by: Birddog at May 07, 2022 10:16 PM (uAI4S) 402
Blake at 6: "Way back when, I dammed up a creek"
I did that at age 8, dig, dig, dig. Went back after the rains and found it all gone. Studied the problem, and decided that the overflow tile had to be IN the dam and below the top, not resting on the top. Went swimming there after the next rain storm. Was my first engineering/logic lesson. Posted by: boynsea at May 07, 2022 10:25 PM (cx155) 403
Fun fact: there were at least two general officers in the Confederate army with the family name of Lee.
The less famous of them was Steven Dill Lee. Posted by: GrandVezir at May 07, 2022 10:29 PM (abuC4) 404
Friends and I dug out a room where 3 of us could fit inside and the top was ground level and was totally camouflaged perfectly to the point you could easily fall into it not knowing it was there. This was in some woods near a friends house. We rigged a pipe sticking up 1" above the ground at an angle and launched bottle rockets over a semi-busy road close by.
The friend in charge of this project went on to become an army ranger and his father was a army colonel. It eventually flooded of course but that summer had a really long drought I remember and we were good to go for a long time. Posted by: SamIam at May 07, 2022 10:36 PM (oasF3) 405
There's a Brit on YouTube who has a whole tunnel complex under his house, with power and ventilation. There's a larger room towards the back of his property where he plays his music as loud as he can, and his neighbors never hear a thing.
Then there's Cody of Cody's Lab, who extended a mercury mine on his parent's property -- and has since started building a simulated "Mars colony" on wilderness land he bought. Posted by: Rob Crawford at May 07, 2022 10:41 PM (naEeR) 406
If you kept the house clean and blew the guy now and then he would spend less time in the tunnel.
Posted by: Big AL at May 07, 2022 10:57 PM (vnvi2) 407
And nobody has mentioned Colin Furze on Youtube?
He's been digging a secret tunnel under his house for the last two years. His last update? 9.5 Million views. Posted by: John Pickens at May 07, 2022 11:33 PM (mltn9) 408
A bloke I met in Nimbin, Australia, has a lava flow- granite- on his land. He started to carve out a little niche to put in a statue of Buddha, and just kept on going. Now you crawl thru a tunnel of comfortable siza into a perfectly spherical room with two benches. Amazing acoustics.
It will last until Australia goes under the Himalayas. Posted by: Vipi at May 08, 2022 08:25 AM (ZDIAf) 409
But if you feel like a dig, go to Coober Pedy in south Australia. There are thousand of abandoned opal mines, each one a vertical shaft with horizontal drives into the opal strata. Get a truck with a winch and a friend you really trust and knock yourself out. Keep what you find. Don’t dig into any pillars.
Posted by: Vipi at May 08, 2022 08:30 AM (ZDIAf) 410
I just love boys, even though they can be infuriating.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 08, 2022 02:38 PM (Mzdiz) 411
And nobody has mentioned Colin Furze on Youtube?
He's been digging a secret tunnel under his house for the last two years. His last update? 9.5 Million views. Posted by: John Pickens at May 07, 2022 11:33 PM (mltn9) That guy is balls-to-the-wall! Thanks for the tip! Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at May 08, 2022 02:44 PM (Mzdiz) 412
I'm building a cabin on an old two-axle trailer frame that I can tow up into the woods and live like a hermit for days at a time, then drag it home and back to reality. Does that count?
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